Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Alex Hinrichs and Jeff Woolsey: Announcing Windows Server 2008 RC0 http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/previewImages/100/249502_100x75.jpg Channel 9 - Alex Hinrichs and Jeff Woolsey: Announcing Windows Server 2008 RC0 Alex Hinrichs runs the Windows Server ship room (you’ve met him before on C9). Jeff Woolsey is a senior program manager on the Virtualization team (you’ve met him before, too). Today, we announce the release of Windows Server 2008 RC0. RC0? What does that mean, exactly? Well, Alex sure knows… There are many new innovations in Windows Server 2008 not the least of which is our new built-in virtualization system, Hypervisor. Jeff explains… Then there’s server core, a stripped down UI-less version of the OS for those who prefer to run only the bare minimum subset of features to serve whatever their serving… Tune in to find out more about our next server OS and meet some of the folks that spend all of their time helping to make it our best ever. If you listen carefully, you’ll hear some very interesting news… Enjoy. en Fri, 24 May 2013 12:39:43 GMT Fri, 24 May 2013 12:39:43 GMT Rev9 Re: Alex Hinrichs and Jeff Woolsey: Announcing Windows Server 2008 RC0 posted by roys

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Alex-Hinrichs-and-Jeff-Woolsey-Announcing-Windows-Server-2008-RC0#c633262717960000000 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:03:16 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Alex-Hinrichs-and-Jeff-Woolsey-Announcing-Windows-Server-2008-RC0#c633262717960000000 roys Re: Alex Hinrichs and Jeff Woolsey: Announcing Windows Server 2008 RC0 posted by JChung2006

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JChung2006 wrote:
I'll ask the obvious:  why not just call this RC1?


Did you watch the video?

posted by Charles

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roys wrote:
No download links?  Not on connect or MSDN..


Here

posted by Charles

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Alex-Hinrichs-and-Jeff-Woolsey-Announcing-Windows-Server-2008-RC0#c633263383340000000 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:32:14 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Alex-Hinrichs-and-Jeff-Woolsey-Announcing-Windows-Server-2008-RC0#c633263383340000000 Charles Re: Alex Hinrichs and Jeff Woolsey: Announcing Windows Server 2008 RC0
Charles wrote:

JChung2006 wrote:
I'll ask the obvious:  why not just call this RC1?


Did you watch the video?

I did.

Software people tend to get silly when it comes to versioning things:  alpha, beta, CTP, RC0, version 0.041a-1.  You think that you're communicating useful semantic information with these obtuse, cryptic designations when a simple version 1, 2, 3, etc. would suffice.

So again, why not just call this RC1?  Release Candidate means something to me.  1 means something to me.  0 means nothing to me in terms of versioning except perhaps a peculiar reluctance to commit to something being an actual release candidate, which is pretty much the opposite of what was said in the video.

posted by JChung2006

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Alex-Hinrichs-and-Jeff-Woolsey-Announcing-Windows-Server-2008-RC0#c633263635370000000 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:32:17 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Alex-Hinrichs-and-Jeff-Woolsey-Announcing-Windows-Server-2008-RC0#c633263635370000000 JChung2006 Re: Alex Hinrichs and Jeff Woolsey: Announcing Windows Server 2008 RC0 Big Smile Big Smile

posted by androidi

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Alex-Hinrichs-and-Jeff-Woolsey-Announcing-Windows-Server-2008-RC0#c633263844200000000 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:20:20 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Alex-Hinrichs-and-Jeff-Woolsey-Announcing-Windows-Server-2008-RC0#c633263844200000000 androidi Re: Alex Hinrichs and Jeff Woolsey: Announcing Windows Server 2008 RC0 Are the Standard and Enterprise downloads of the 32 bit version identical code? Is the same true for the Standard and Enterprise downloads of the 64 bit version?

No, I haven't seen the video yet.

posted by rhatsaruck

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Alex-Hinrichs-and-Jeff-Woolsey-Announcing-Windows-Server-2008-RC0#c633264091710000000 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:12:51 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Alex-Hinrichs-and-Jeff-Woolsey-Announcing-Windows-Server-2008-RC0#c633264091710000000 rhatsaruck Re: Alex Hinrichs and Jeff Woolsey: Announcing Windows Server 2008 RC0 posted by ZippyV

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Alex-Hinrichs-and-Jeff-Woolsey-Announcing-Windows-Server-2008-RC0#c633264284110000000 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:33:31 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Alex-Hinrichs-and-Jeff-Woolsey-Announcing-Windows-Server-2008-RC0#c633264284110000000 ZippyV Re: Alex Hinrichs and Jeff Woolsey: Announcing Windows Server 2008 RC0
ZippyV wrote:
I've looked around for this hypervisor thing but I can't find it anywhere. Help doesn't explain much except for stating the minimum requirements.


Zippy, the Hypervisor is one of the enabling technologies for Windows Server Virtualization. The hypervisor is a technology that takes direct advantage of the new Intel-VT and AMD-V enabled chips. This allows you to have hardware-based virtualization in the CPU as the Hypervisor controls the entrance/exit of virtual machines directly in the CPU. This has many advantages over just performance.

posted by JasonOlson

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Alex-Hinrichs-and-Jeff-Woolsey-Announcing-Windows-Server-2008-RC0#c633265064510000000 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:14:11 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Alex-Hinrichs-and-Jeff-Woolsey-Announcing-Windows-Server-2008-RC0#c633265064510000000 JasonOlson Re: Alex Hinrichs and Jeff Woolsey: Announcing Windows Server 2008 RC0
And yes, we are working with several ISVs that are using TxF. Many backup vendors are also becoming TxF-aware. It is important to realize that we are dogfooding TxF internally as well. Windows Update uses TxF when updating files, and System Restore uses it as well.

posted by JasonOlson

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JasonOlson wrote:
And a clarification is necessary. Charles towards the end of the video states that TxF (Transactional NTFS) was included in Windows Server 2003; it was not. Transactional NTFS is a feature that is strictly new and exclusive to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.



I was under the impresssion that TxF was included in R2. My bad...
C

posted by Charles

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Alex-Hinrichs-and-Jeff-Woolsey-Announcing-Windows-Server-2008-RC0#c633265320820000000 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:21:22 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Alex-Hinrichs-and-Jeff-Woolsey-Announcing-Windows-Server-2008-RC0#c633265320820000000 Charles Re: Alex Hinrichs and Jeff Woolsey: Announcing Windows Server 2008 RC0 At install time, the cd-key determines the edition that is installed - ENT or STD.  The media is the same.  This is true for x64 and x86.

posted by AlexHinrichs

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Alex-Hinrichs-and-Jeff-Woolsey-Announcing-Windows-Server-2008-RC0#c633265425420000000 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:15:42 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Alex-Hinrichs-and-Jeff-Woolsey-Announcing-Windows-Server-2008-RC0#c633265425420000000 AlexHinrichs Re: Alex Hinrichs and Jeff Woolsey: Announcing Windows Server 2008 RC0 I know our pre-release milestone naming is a little inconsistent and at times appears haphazard.  We're working to standardize the naming and make it clear to testers that "Beta 1" means "this" while "RC1" means "that".

Regarding this specific milestone naming, there are a couple of reasons we named it RC0. 
1. Tradition.  
I know that the answer "because we've done it this way before" is lame, but it's the truth.  We've named many first-RCs as "RC0" in the past, so we rolled with that name this time.
2. We're dorks.
...so we frequently start counting things starting with 0 instead of 1.  We do this everyday in the 100's of lists we manage.  In fact, our prioritizations even start with "Priority 0".

-Alex

posted by AlexHinrichs

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Alex-Hinrichs-and-Jeff-Woolsey-Announcing-Windows-Server-2008-RC0#c633265430290000000 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:23:49 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Alex-Hinrichs-and-Jeff-Woolsey-Announcing-Windows-Server-2008-RC0#c633265430290000000 AlexHinrichs Re: Alex Hinrichs and Jeff Woolsey: Announcing Windows Server 2008 RC0
AlexHinrichs wrote:


I know our pre-release milestone naming is a little inconsistent and at times appears haphazard.  We're working to standardize the naming and make it clear to testers that "Beta 1" means "this" while "RC1" means "that".

Regarding this specific milestone naming, there are a couple of reasons we named it RC0. 
1. Tradition.  
I know that the answer "because we've done it this way before" is lame, but it's the truth.  We've named many first-RCs as "RC0" in the past, so we rolled with that name this time.
2. We're dorks.
...so we frequently start counting things starting with 0 instead of 1.  We do this everyday in the 100's of lists we manage.  In fact, our prioritizations even start with "Priority 0".

-Alex



Makes sense to me.


Fiddler on the roof - Tradition Wink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRdfX7ut8gw

Cool

posted by raymond

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JasonOlson wrote:

ZippyV wrote:
I've looked around for this hypervisor thing but I can't find it anywhere. Help doesn't explain much except for stating the minimum requirements.


Zippy, the Hypervisor is one of the enabling technologies for Windows Server Virtualization. The hypervisor is a technology that takes direct advantage of the new Intel-VT and AMD-V enabled chips. This allows you to have hardware-based virtualization in the CPU as the Hypervisor controls the entrance/exit of virtual machines directly in the CPU. This has many advantages over just performance.


Yeah yeah, stop teasing me. How do I install it?

posted by ZippyV

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Alex-Hinrichs-and-Jeff-Woolsey-Announcing-Windows-Server-2008-RC0#c633266156200000000 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:33:40 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Alex-Hinrichs-and-Jeff-Woolsey-Announcing-Windows-Server-2008-RC0#c633266156200000000 ZippyV Re: Alex Hinrichs and Jeff Woolsey: Announcing Windows Server 2008 RC0 http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToInstallingWindowsVirtualizationServicesHypervisorOnWindowsServer2008RC0.aspx

posted by JasonOlson

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Alex-Hinrichs-and-Jeff-Woolsey-Announcing-Windows-Server-2008-RC0#c633266400320000000 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 05:20:32 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Alex-Hinrichs-and-Jeff-Woolsey-Announcing-Windows-Server-2008-RC0#c633266400320000000 JasonOlson Re: Alex Hinrichs and Jeff Woolsey: Announcing Windows Server 2008 RC0
He mentions a Desktop Experience Pack (or something like that).  Is this available with the RC0 now? 

Edit: Never mind.  Found this link that explains how enable it.

Are drivers that are certified for Vista compatible with Server 2008? 

posted by jeremywiebe

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